Open Terminal in your Utilities folder.
At the Terminal prompt type
top
and press return.
Copy the entire list of processes produced by the top command and post that list here. You can then quit Terminal.
Again, I think you are over-reacting a bit.
Lol will do later tar, I'm just a worrier
hi heres what was asked for
Processes: 49 total, 2 running, 47 sleeping, 207 threads 17:45:13
Load Avg: 0.17, 0.11, 0.04 CPU usage: 0.48% user, 1.46% sys, 98.4% idle
SharedLibs: 8260K resident, 5724K data, 0B linkedit.
MemRegions: 4845 total, 154M resident, 11M private, 133M shared.
PhysMem: 410M wired, 293M active, 145M inactive, 848M used, 1199M free.
VM: 116G vsize, 1038M framework vsize, 36383(0) pageins, 0(0) pageouts.
Networks: packets: 2971/2496K in, 2980/402K out.
Disks: 13067/661M read, 4965/65M written.
PID COMMAND %CPU TIME #TH #WQ #POR #MRE RPRVT RSHRD RSIZE VPRVT
147 top 2.4 00:00.79 1/1 0 24 33 804K 244K 1380K 17M
144 bash 0.0 00:00.00 1 0 17 24 336K 244K 1008K 17M
143 login 0.0 00:00.03 1 0 22 53 448K 244K 1552K 18M
141 Terminal 0.5 00:01.38 5 1 108 107 5120K 17M 12M 35M
140 cvmsComp_x86 0.0 00:00.02 1 0 18 33 1440K 10M 5300K 18M
136 mdworker 0.0 00:00.36 3 1 69 93 4420K 12M 15M 37M
135 mdworker 0.0 00:00.20 3 1 50 60 1516K 12M 3344K 31M
122 WebKitPlugin 0.0 00:00.00 2 2 28 50 532K 244K 984K 39M
114 Safari 0.0 00:10.83 9 2 150 389 19M 24M 60M 175M
108 CCacheServer 0.0 00:00.01 2 2 35 52 616K 244K 1624K 41M
107 pboard 0.0 00:00.00 1 0 22 36 356K 248K 836K 18M
106 iTunesHelper 0.0 00:00.04 3 1 43 71 1144K 10M 3176K 29M
102 AirPort Base 0.0 00:00.04 3 1 60 79 1452K 13M 5672K 30M
96 UserEventAge 0.0 00:00.21 3 1 183 104 2148K 1364K 5424K 41M
is this normal?